Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence (2024)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (2025). Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence. History and Anthropology, 36(3), 435-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2435662

Pir Muhammad Karwan’s 2000 poetry collection Da Xāperey Werghowey traces a history of materiality, emotion, and imagination across human-environmental systems as they are militarized over twenty years in Afghanistan. At the same as it is a unique nar... Read More about Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence.

Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas (Love Destiny) (2024)
Journal Article
Boonhok, S. (2024). Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas (Love Destiny). South East Asia Research, 32(3), 304-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2024.2436519

First televised in 2018, Buppesannivas (Love Destiny) was among the most popular and influential dramas in Thailand that represented images of Thainess (khwam-pen-Thai). Based on a novel by Rompaeng, it tells the story of a twenty-first-century woman... Read More about Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas (Love Destiny).

What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach (2024)
Journal Article
Errichiello, M. (2024). What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach. Religiographies, 3(1), 56-74

Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, different interpretations of Zoroastrianism began to emerge among the Parsis of India. Some of these interpretations were based on ideas that Parsis defined as “esoteric.” This article examines the part... Read More about What is Zoroastrian Esotericism? Towards an Ontological Approach.

Coffee as connection--tradition, controversy and literary representations (2024)
Digital Artefact
Ouyang, W.-C. (2024). Coffee as connection--tradition, controversy and literary representations. [YouTube]

Traversing the history of coffee through several literary examples, Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA explores coffee as not only a drink, but as tradition, commodity, and source of controversy. From the works of Mahmoud Darwish to Haruki Murakami, coffe... Read More about Coffee as connection--tradition, controversy and literary representations.

Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia (2024)
Journal Article
Darmawan, A. (2024). Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia. Indonesia and the Malay World, 52(152), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2024.2294612

This article discusses the efforts of constructing the narrative of continuity that connects the Indonesian province of Riau Islands with the former Malay kingdoms, Riau-Lingga-Johor-Pahang, and supports the claims to be the heir of the originator of... Read More about Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia.

What if I lose my language? What if I have lost my language? (2024)
Digital Artefact
Amir, A. (2024). What if I lose my language? What if I have lost my language?

Osiris Reborn: The Arabic Epic of Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan and the Prophetic Königsnovelle (2024)
Book Chapter
Blatherwick, H. (2024). Osiris Reborn: The Arabic Epic of Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan and the Prophetic Königsnovelle. In P. Lothspeich (Ed.), The Epic World (189-200). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429286698-17

This chapter explores the intertextual relationship between Sīrat al-Malik Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan (The Adventures of King Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan), a medieval Egyptian popular epic, and the “Prophetic Königsnovelle” (Prophetic “Kings novel”), an Egyptian “dis... Read More about Osiris Reborn: The Arabic Epic of Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan and the Prophetic Königsnovelle.